Goodbye, Beard.

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It's the last week of level II fieldwork, rotation 1! To celebrate, here's the limo I totally want to ride in one day. I was SUPER excited coming home and seeing that!

Seth's been growing out his beard. This is the longest and fullest his beard's gotten, and also the longest his hair's been since college!

He's even appropriately rocking the Hokie hat.


At the dog park this weekend, Rosie taught him how to fetch balls from the water:

She's great at supervising!

Seth and I tried to have a photo session with Roo to commemorate the beard before it's demise.

Rosie reaaaaaaaaally wanted the liver treat. She didn't quite as much want to sit still for the photo. One day, we'll have a nice camera and a tripod so I can actually set up shots rather than just use my freakishly long arm span.

This is the closest we got to a nice shot with little Roo.

We've been going to the park frequently with Rosie, but I miss my Charizard!!!! Finally posting the picture from the Festival of Lights. :-)

Other cute winter photos from Seth's phone:

Rosie and her elephant, warming themselves by the fire.

Rosie loves to give kisses.

And that's about it! We're excited to see some friends this weekend who are coming down from DC! It's hard to believe it's been 2 years since we moved from there, but definitely loving our Charleston life!

One Month Left!!!

What? Seriously? 1 month. That's it. I have enough digits to count down the last days of this rotation.

For the record, still loving this rotation, but I'm jealous of the PTs who get three 8-week rotations, just because I know I like this setting and have learned a lot, but I'd love the opportunity to learn in a different environment, too. Oh, well, c'est la vie. And what a beautiful life it is. :-)

Seth and I are spending lots of together time lately, which has been awesome. Rosie is thrilled with going out and about in the afternoon as we enjoy the warm spells as they come, but then is more thrilled to have us home and making/eating food. One day, we'll have a real dining room table, and her little puppy heart will break.

It's hard to believe that I graduate in less than 5 months! July 20, 2013, I will be officially a graduate of MUSC! I start my next rotation in mid-April and will be working with pediatrics in an outpatient setting, and I can't wait. I am looking for scrubs in the right color, and have been hitting up the thrift stores (cue the Macklemore/Ryan Lewis song now) to try to find them. Haven't been as successful as hoped, but I have been able to get a couple Grey's Anatomy tops, which are just insanely comfortable and kind of my new obsession.

The Hokie football schedule is up! Hopefully we'll be able to attend at least one game again this year. :-) We'll just have to see where we are and how everything's going around that time.

Also!! If you love key lime, get the key lime cupcakes and icing. It's amazing. Worth all the additives and bad things for you, because it's delicious like none other. I found it at WalMart and have no idea which company did it, but yeah. Totally worth it!

Really, not much is going on aside from just enjoying life and looking forward to the future. We've had opportunities for excellent talks about what's going on in our life. It always amazes me when we each find out something about the other we thought we knew (because we'd talked about it, not just because we "know" what the other person things), but hadn't quite been right about for either of us. It's the little surprises that make life so fun!

It seems like not that much, but we're having fun and going to continue to explore Charleston. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we'll be able to check out a trail or something this weekend!

Cheers,
Cassi

Halfway this week!

Omigoodness! We (as in my class and I) are halfway through our first rotation as of this Friday. Midterms are this week, and apparently, we should all fail. I'll probably get dinged on assertiveness, which I find funny given that I'm not a particularly timid person in general, but that's fine. :-) I love the acute care and the outpatient parts of my experience-- I need to remind my CI that I'd like to observe some of the surgeries still. I'd actually love to see a hand surgery if I can, but I also want to see the neck surgeries if possible, since I work with them the most in this rotation. It's a lot of fun to see as much as I can while I'm here and take advantage of it! Learning is fun, y'all.

So, Seth and I went to our first oyster roast today! It was to benefit a little girl who is one of a set of triplets, has torticollis, and most importantly needs a liver transplant, which she'll be getting from her dad three days from now. It was fun to do the oyster roast thing, although we agree we'd rather just get our oysters on the halfshell. :-P Or else roast them ourselves and do a better job cleaning them first or something... It was a lot of work, but it was fun and another thing to check off our "Charleston to-do list" while we're here. When we got home, I made us shrimp and grits with andouille sausage! It was delicious and exciting and healthy overall, which is always a plus. :-)

It's hard to believe that it's almost Lent and Easter time again! Easter comes just after my rotation here ends. I'm giving up swearing again for Lent, as I didn't do as good a job with it last year, but hopefully it'll stick this year. I don't swear at all at work, but it's still a habit I need to kick more in my personal life.

In other news, I learned from America's Test Kitchen that you can make your bananas go from ripe to overripe by baking them in the oven for up to 20 minutes to release the yummy sugars. So, it's banana bread time again! I'm making the cinnamon swirl banana bread-- it's so good.

Now, time for more House of Cards then bedtime.